Other Rankin / Bass voice actors have included Andy Griffith, Burl Ives, Casey Kasem, Fred Astaire, Red Skelton, Danny Kaye, Boris Karloff, Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas, Ethel Merman, Vincent Price, Bob McFadden, Robie Lester, Linda Gary, Mickey Rooney, Morey Amsterdam, Marlo Thomas, Greer Garson, Angela Lansbury, June Foray, Don Messick, Jackie Vernon, Allen Swift, Robert Morse, Mia Farrow, and Shelley Winters.

* Voices By Mike Bell, Paul DeKorte, Patrick Fraley, Joan Gerber, Debbie Hall, Stan Jones, Casey Kasem, Heather North Kenney, Edie Lehmann, Ginny McSwain, Don Messick, Mike Redman, Marilyn Schreffler, Pat Stevens, Rip Taylor, Bob Tebow, and Frank Welker

Lennie Weinrib provided his voice for one season in 1979 and from 1980 on, it was performed by Don Messick ( who voiced Scooby ).

The next choice was Messick, who was seen as giving the best audition, but still deemed " the wrong voice ".

" said Hank Messick, a journalist for the Miami Herald who had spent years investigating the character.

Pixie ( voiced by Don Messick ) and Dixie ( voiced by Daws Butler ) are two mice who every day end up being chased by a cat named Mr. Jinks ( voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Marlon Brando ).

Among the more influential scientists have been Harold Gulliksen ( whose book, " Theory of Mental Tests ," helped codify classical test theory ); Frederic Lord ( Item Response Theory ); Samuel Messick, ( modern validity theory ); Robert Linn ( currently known for testing and educational policy ); Norman Frederiksen ( performance assessment ); Ledyard Tucker ( test analysis, including inventing the " Angoff Method " of standard setting ); Donald Rubin ( missing data and causal modeling from observational data ); Karl Joreskog ( structural equation modeling and confirmatory factor analysis ); Paul Holland ( differential item functioning, test equating, causal modeling ); John Carroll ( language testing and cognitive psychology ); Michael Lewis ( infant cognitive, social, and emotional development ); Irving Sigel ( children's cognitive development ); Herman Witkin ( cognitive and learning styles ); K. Patricia Cross ( adult education ); Samuel Ball ( an evaluation researcher who documented the positive educational effects of Sesame Street ); and David Rosenhan ( known for the Rosenhan experiment, which challenged the validity of psychiatric diagnosis ).

Other voice artists in the series included Don Messick as some of the Mob ( except Clyde and Softy, who were voiced by Paul Winchell, and Yak-Yak, who was voiced by Mel Blanc ) and assorted other voices, and Gary Owens as the narrator ( In the Japanese version, Susumu Ishikawa was the narrator .).

Voice actors who are or were known for their celebrity impressions include Daws Butler, Mel Blanc, Don Messick, Maurice LaMarche, and Rob Paulsen.

During his time in the US Navy during World War II, the role was played by other voice actors, including Don Messick, who reprised the role in the 1990s.

The first season featured segments with Dingbat and the Creeps ( Dingbat is the vampire dog ( Frank Welker ) accompanied by Spare Rib the skeleton and Nobody the jack-o-lantern who were both voiced by Don Messick ), which were created by Ruby-Spears for the show, and the second season featured fellow comic strip character Marmaduke ( voiced by Paul Winchell ).

Messick is also known for providing the voice of the dogs Astro on The Jetsons and Muttley ( who snickered ).

Zorak was voiced by Don Messick, who spoke in a buzzy monotone meant to evoke his insect-like features.

On May 31, 2011, WTC announced that Andrew Messick, who was previously the president AEG, would become CEO of the World Triathlon Corporation.

Messick, who is an Ironman triathlon finisher himself, helped build and direct, among other things, the Tour of California cycling event.

Dalia Messick ( April 11, 1906 – April 5, 2005 ) was an American comic strip artist who used the pseudonym Dale Messick.

* Zazuum ( voiced by Don Messick ): A small donkey with long ears, who was Raseem ’ s companion before the muscle-man joined Turhan ’ s crusade against Bakaar.

Loosely based upon the novel, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, this was an adventure segment involving balloonist " Phinny Fogg " ( conceived as the great-great grandson from America of the main character Phileas Fogg in the novel and voiced by Bruce Watson ) and reporter teenagers Jenny ( voiced by Janet Waldo ) and Hoppy ( voiced by Don Messick ), who set out on a globetrotting adventure to sail around the world in 79 days and beat the original record set by Phinny's father.

Other residents of the Wonderland Zoo who help the Hair Bear Bunch in their plots include Bananas the Gorilla ( voiced by Daws Butler ), Furface the Lion ( voiced by Paul Winchell ), Bumbo the Elephant ( voiced by Daws Butler ), Slicks the Fox ( voiced by John Stephenson ), Hippy the Hippopotamus ( voiced by John Stephenson ), Hercules the Hippopotamus ( voiced by Don Messick ), George the Giraffe, Beaks the Pelican, Tiptoes the Ostrich ( voiced by Paul Winchell ), Gabby the Parrot, Melvyn the Monkey, Hoppy the Kangaroo, Zeed the Zebra, Ollie the Octopus, Einstein the Owl, Arnie and Gloria the Gorillas, Specs the Mole ( voiced by Paul Winchell ), and Pipsqueak the Mouse ( voiced by Janet Waldo ).

* Mr. Hoofnagel ( Don Messick )-An old goat who owned and operated the local ice cream parlor.

* Perilous Paper Doll Man ( voiced by Don Messick )-A supervillain made of paper who has the ability to slip underneath locked doors, or fold himself into paper airplanes for a quick getaway.

* The Bubbler ( voiced by Don Messick )-A supervillain who kidnaps the young Shah of Shishkabob ( voiced by Ginny Tyler ) by sealing him in an unbreakable bubble.

He has a henchman named Muddy ( possibly voiced by either Hal Smith or John Stephenson ) who has a worm named Curly ( Don Messick ).

* Fero, the Fiendish Fiddler ( voiced by Don Messick )-A supervillain who, despite his attire making him look like a caricature of Nero, could send people and objects to anywhere he wished with a hi-tech violin.

Yogi Bear ( voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Art Carney ) and his friend Boo Boo Bear ( voiced by Don Messick ) live in Jellystone Park and occasionally try to steal picnic baskets while evading Ranger Smith ( voiced by Don Messick ).

He was voiced by Carman Maxwell and Johnny Murray during the 1920s and 1930s, and once by Don Messick during the 1990s.

Babs does so, and the resulting audience laughter rejuvenates the ailing Honey and reveals the voice, as well as the vaultkeeper to be none other than Bosko ( voiced by Don Messick ) himself.

The Mouth of Sauron is featured in the 1980 animated version of The Return of the King produced by Rankin / Bass and was voiced by Don Messick.

Dastardly ( voiced by late Paul Winchell, in a manner that Winchell would use several years later to portray the Smurfs ' nemesis Gargamel ) is an archetypal mustache-twirling villain ; Muttley ( voiced by late Don Messick ) is his trademark wheezily snickering, anthropomorphic dog henchman.

Rock and Gravel Slag ( voiced by Daws Butler and Don Messick ) are Cavemen driving a wheeled boulder.

Big Gruesome ( a lurching, huge humanoid character voiced by Daws Butler ) and Little Gruesome ( a purple-skinned vampire voiced by Don Messick ) are monsters driving a hearse-like car with a belfry which houses a dragon, ghosts, serpents, and other horror-themed characters as well as storm clouds.

A scientist ( voiced by Don Messick ) in a boat-shaped airplane-like car which can change into just about anything that moves, from mundane vehicles ( such as a motorcycle ) to outlandish ones ( such as a giant bowling ball ).

The Bulletproof Bomb ( occasionally referred to as the " Roaring 20s ") is a 1920s limousine sedan, driven by a group of seven pint-sized gangsters all of whom sit in the front seat: leader Clyde ( voiced by late Paul Winchell ), Ring-A-Ding ( voiced by late Don Messick ), and five others.

Rufus Ruffcut ( again, voiced by Daws Butler ) is a tough, muscle-bound lumberjack, while Sawtooth ( voiced by Don Messick ) is his anthropomorphic pet beaver.

The evil character is incredible similar to Dastardly, including having a canine henchman Mumbly, voiced by Don Messick Muttley's voice.

* The Scarecrow appears in the 1978 Challenge of the Super Friends voiced by Don Messick.

While production times and costs were undeniably higher with animated programming, the cost of talent was far less ( voice actors Daws Butler, Don Messick, Mel Blanc and in later years Frank Welker and Rob Paulsen became known for their ability to hold several roles at once, sometimes even on the same show ) and networks could rerun children's animated programming more frequently than most live-action series, negating the financial disadvantages.

They quickly formed their own company, and Daws Butler and Don Messick were on-hand to provide voices.

The Constructicons ' voices were performed by Michael Bell ( Scrapper ), Neil Ross ( Hook, Bonecrusher ), Gregg Berger ( Long Haul ), Frank Welker ( Mixmaster ), Don Messick ( Scavenger ) and Arthur Burghardt ( Devastator ).

In some episodes, Snagglepuss is chased by Major Minor ( voiced by Don Messick ), a tiny-sized hunter, whose chases seem similar to the ones which involve Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny ( which was hardly a coincidence, since most of the scripts were created by Michael Maltese, one of Warner Bros. Cartoons ' key writers in the ' 40s and ' 50s ).

Morris had a disagreement with Joseph Barbera prior to production of the 1966-1967 season of Magilla Gorilla and Atom Ant and all of his voices were recast, mostly using Don Messick.

* Multi-Man ( voiced by Don Messick )-Multi could create infinite duplicates of himself which were often destroyed, leaving only the original behind.